2015-03-11

Project Update:

Board meeting

Code4lib house

Confluence - open to public

other?

• Brad needed for full update; Chris Irvin reported a little.
  
  • Atlanta in February, face-to-face at Lyrasis office
  • One focus on communication with the membership
  • Brad working on SAA ArchivesSpace session, half-day post-conference reception/presentation
• Sibyl asked regarding status of community voting – Gordon reports that Brad worked with Atlassian to increase 50 concurrent user limit to 5000; happened last Thursday.
• Confluence site to be made public, with a provision for private working documents.

Documentation Subgroup update

• Continuing through the email lists.
• Kari and Scott, who're also on UAC's Features Prioritization group, had discussed where documentation updates and testing should be integrated into the sprint process.
• Question regarding where documentation is: currently on the GitHub wiki, to be moved to Confluence, including READMEs.
  • Tangent regarding documentation versioning referred to a smaller group discussion that Kari will organize.

• Most work on testing import/export, particularly EAD.
• Mark considering Schematron
• Round of testing identified issues, some now in JIRA, some were already.
  • Problems importing large finding aids; performance improvements to be ported.
• Longer term: testing EAC, EAD3.
• Sibyl requested that Noah add details (particularly those in an email from Brad?) about migration principles to the documentation.
• Cory and Brad are corresponding about EAC.

Committers Oversight Subgroup Update

• Public mailing list
• GitHub organizations
• Plugin management

• Mostly about mailing list closure and how better to communicate with community.
• Considering more than one GitHub organization, e.g. for plugins and/or a labs/experimental organization like Fedora and Hydra.
• Talking about plugin management: how to test, version, resolve conflicts, &c.
• See also Minutes 2015-02-27.

• Rotating off:
  • Laura's last call, changing organization.
  • Don rotating off in June.
  • Sibyl rotating off in June, changing organization.
• If anyone has an interest in being chair, contact Sibyl.
• New nominations in April?